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Meaning of "consumptiveness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONSUMPTIVENESS

consumptiveness  [kənˈsʌmptɪvnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONSUMPTIVENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Consumptiveness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONSUMPTIVENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of consumptiveness in the English dictionary

The definition of consumptiveness in the dictionary is a tendency to consume.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONSUMPTIVENESS


assertiveness
əˈsɜːtɪvnɪs
attentiveness
əˈtɛntɪvnɪs
attractiveness
əˈtræktɪvnɪs
competitiveness
kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnɪs
cost-effectiveness
ˌkɒstɪˈfɛktɪvnɪs
deceptiveness
dɪˈsɛptɪvnɪs
destructiveness
dɪˈstrʌktɪvnɪs
distinctiveness
dɪˈstɪŋktɪvnɪs
effectiveness
ɪˈfɛktɪvnɪs
ineffectiveness
ˌɪnɪˈfɛktɪvnɪs
inquisitiveness
ɪnˈkwɪzɪtɪvnɪs
inventiveness
ɪnˈvɛntɪvnɪs
perceptiveness
pəˈseptɪvnɪs
protectiveness
prəˈtɛktɪvnɪs
receptiveness
rɪˈseptɪvnɪs
repetitiveness
rɪˈpetɪtɪvnɪs
representativeness
ˌrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvnɪs
seductiveness
sɪˈdʌktɪvnɪs
suggestiveness
səˈdʒɛstɪvnɪs
vindictiveness
vɪnˈdɪktɪvnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONSUMPTIVENESS

consumer terrorism
consumer watchdog
consumerism
consumerist
consumeristic
Consumers´ Association
consumership
consuming
consumingly
consummate
consummately
consummation
consummative
consummatory
consummatory behaviour
consumpt
consumption
consumptive
consumptively
consumptivity

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONSUMPTIVENESS

activeness
adhesiveness
aggressiveness
appropriateness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
completeness
cuteness
defensiveness
doneness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness
whiteness

Synonyms and antonyms of consumptiveness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «consumptiveness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONSUMPTIVENESS

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The translations of consumptiveness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «consumptiveness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

consumptiveness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

consumptiveness
570 millions of speakers

English

consumptiveness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

consumptiveness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

consumptiveness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

consumptiveness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

consumptiveness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

consumptiveness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

consumptiveness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepenggunaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

consumptiveness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

consumptiveness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

consumptiveness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Konsumsi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

consumptiveness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

consumptiveness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उपभोग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

consumptiveness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

consumptiveness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

consumptiveness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

consumptiveness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

consumptiveness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

consumptiveness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

consumptiveness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

consumptiveness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

consumptiveness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of consumptiveness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSUMPTIVENESS»

The term «consumptiveness» is normally little used and occupies the 146.713 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of consumptiveness
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSUMPTIVENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «consumptiveness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «consumptiveness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about consumptiveness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONSUMPTIVENESS»

Discover the use of consumptiveness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to consumptiveness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Environmental Science: The Way the World Works
However, the negative impact of individuals is multiplied many times by the consumptiveness of their lifestyle, because each increment of consumption involves a further demand on resources and greater amounts of wastes being produced.
Bernard J. Nebel, Richard T. Wright, 1993
2
Working Together to Educate about the Environment: 1989 ...
C. Consumptiveness. The single dominant aspect of modern society underlying social, environmental, and religious problems is our excessive levels of and preoccupation with consumption of materials and energy. At the social level, ...
Michael P. Gross, Richard J. Wilke, Joseph F. Passineau, 1989
3
Autokind Vs. Mankind: An Analysis of Tyranny, a Proposal for ...
Today, despite the certainty of having to shift from inexpensive liquid petroleum to hard-to-get and hard-to-process oil shale and tar sands for gasoline, the principle of consumptiveness drives on. Despite the depletion of high-grade domestic ...
Kenneth R. Schneider, 2001
4
The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and ...
This violent, incoherent culture in which art is reduced to the aesthetic is further a culture dominated by thankless consumptiveness: "Too long all things divine have been put to use /Heavenly powers trifled away, mercies/Squandered for sport, ...
Richard Eldridge, 2001
5
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment
Consumptiveness is used to separate activities that use the environment in different ways. By consume it is meant that, in the case of hunting, an animal is shot and removed from the environment altogether. Fishing can present itself as a form ...
Andrew Holden, David A. Fennell, 2012
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Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist's View of the Crisis We Face
Most important, this passionately written book emphasizes that a gloom-and-doom scenario is not inevitable, and as Sale explores alternative paths, he considers the ways in which science can help us realize a better future.
Peter Sale, 2011
7
The Fifth International Symposium on Society and Resource ...
Fedler and Ditton's consumptive orientation scale, which quantifies the consumptive orientation of anglers using agreement responses to a set of 12 items on the importance of catching fish was used to measure consumptiveness. We will ...
‎1994
8
The philosophy of courage: or The Oxford group way
or The Oxford group way Philip Leon. shepherded, healed, organised, ruled. The effect of fear is to turn activity and productiveness into mere passivity and consumptiveness, while extreme fear begets extreme greed or mania, which reduces ...
Philip Leon, 1940
9
The Foreign Quarterly Review
consumptiveness, which we do not relish. There is not a little childish trifling, decking-out of pretty nothings, sheer shilly-shally, unadulterated namlizl-pumby. As Heine says of Tieck, so we are too often obliged to say of Uhland—if there is any ...
10
Curriculum in Abundance
But it also promises to help us get over our sense of loss through a relentless, ever-accelerating stream of consumptiveness: one faceless, bodiless, placeless, careless cup after the other (just like one faceless, bodiless, placeless, careless ...
David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen, 2013

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONSUMPTIVENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term consumptiveness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Tim Price's Hilarious Take On What FIFA Tells Us About Overpriced …
And if FIFA had shareholders, it is likely they would be somewhat less impressed by the gaudy awfulness and conspicuous consumptiveness of ... «ValueWalk, Jun 15»
2
Architect Nicklas encourages more sustainability
“That energy consumptiveness is adding to the environmental cost.” Justin Cooper, a Durham resident studying electrical engineering and ... «The Daily Tar Heel, Apr 15»
3
Moody's review's Bombardier's Ba3 ratings for possible downgrade …
... its liquidity position, as well as the company's prospects for improving its earnings and reducing its cash consumptiveness through 2016. «Moodys.com, Jan 15»
4
[Harga BBM Naik] Here is One Reason for the Fuel Price Hike …
He emphasized the need to divert the subsidy from consumptiveness to productiveness. The president has also admitted that it is a difficult ... «Global Indonesian Voices, Nov 14»
5
Tutu speaks on Marikana massacre
... political dispensation that are the envy of the world, but the corridors of power are characterised by consumptiveness and corruption. «Independent Online, Aug 12»
6
Artists craft the ultimate iPhone fanboi holiday gift
... has married the simplicity of passive audio amplification with the shiny-shiny conspicuous consumptiveness of the most stylistian fanboi. «Register, Dec 11»
7
NIGERIA Celebrates 50 Year of Failure With Corruption Extravagaza
... limits of the market society have now been exposed, and European nations are being forced to rein in their greed and their consumptiveness, ... «Osun Defender, Jun 10»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Consumptiveness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/consumptiveness>. Apr 2024 ».
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